It worries me that my two current pet bugs aren't fixed yet (well, one of them worries me, the other I didn't report until this weekend so it's not strange it hasn't been fixed).

The first one (which is the one I reported nearly two months ago) is the "IE7 displays an unneeded horizontal scrollbar when the page contains right-floated italic text" (example,
Connect feedback page). This one has existed since the first IE7 Beta2 Preview for XPSP2, and has been in every build for XP or Vista since.

The second one is "An element with position:absolute inside an element with position:relative inside an element with a left padding subtracts the padding from the absolute offset" (example,
Connect feedback page). This one was in the previous IE7 Beta2 Preview, but it wasn't in Vista 5342. It did however show up in Vista 5365 which is when I bugged it.

Both of these bugs happen in strict mode, are not due to IE6 workarounds but actual bugs in IE7, and have been seen on actual pages "in the wild" which would need to be modified if they aren't fixed. The last thing us web developers need is another set of workarounds
that apply to IE7 but not to IE6.

If you are in the Vista beta and can access the Connect bugs, please validate and vote.

I have been developing against IE7 for my current project and it is soooo much nicer than developing against IE6. It is the little things that make me happy like being able to have a div overlap a drop down control.

Did you remove the uninstall directory? If that's the case, you should find another machine with the tech preview installed and copy the uninstall directory to your machine. Then run that command again.

PaoloM wrote:Did you remove the uninstall directory? If that's the case, you should find another machine with the tech preview installed and copy the uninstall directory to your machine. Then run that command again.

I thought "software your Grandma can use" was the mantra of Microsoft. You make it sound like there will plenty of tech support calls coming in!

Beta software ISN'T supposed to be software your Grandma can use. They don't want the computer illiterate trying the betas, because they can't provide productive feedback.

If the final release has such issues-- and they are not related to removing the beta-- I will be disappointed. But it shouldn't.